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Buffy & Birds - "Cat TV"
On 1/29/2016 7:04 AM, Will in New Haven wrote:
On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 2:29:17 AM UTC-5, Joy wrote: On 1/28/2016 7:27 PM, Bastette wrote: jmcquown wrote: On 1/25/2016 10:05 AM, Will in New Haven wrote: On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:16:30 AM UTC-5, Jack Campin wrote: Buffy simply doesn't seem to care about birds. Persia was always thrilled by "cat TV". In the summer when there were hummingbirds at the feeder, she paid rapt attention as they zipped around and sipped. Buffy was all Ho-hum, there's a bird hovering. Guess it's time for a nap. Buffy is only the second cat I've ever had but I truly thought all of them would at least like to watch birds flitting around. Honestly, she doesn't seem to care. Our lot are all fascinated by them, either in the garden, on a nature DVD or as recorded on a CD. But here's a new one. Marion spent yesterday evening at her computer watching a BBC nature documentary series about deception strategies in animals. Ollie was on here desk beside her and ignored the whole thing - until he heard the call of a baby seal. That got him REALLY interested. Where can you get baby-seal-flavoured cat food? Squeakytoy ignores sound from the TV, including "normal" cat voices. However, if anything comes on that sounds like her voice, which you can figure out from her name, she immediately alerts and replies. We think she is an alien and is trying to answer the mothership. Of course she is! Buffy ignores television completely. Even cat food and treat commercials. Then again, there probably isn't a cat on TV with exactly her same voice. She is bothered by my watching videos on my computer. There's something about the recordings that irritate her, even when the videos don't involve cats. My cats never liked videos made for cats, which would feature squirrels and other small animals running around, or birds chirping and flying around. Actually, to say they didn't like them is an overstatement. They simply didn't take any notice of them. They were much more interested in videos made *of* cats. The instant there was a feline - of any species - on TV, they were glued to the set. They particularly liked images of leopards and mountain lions slinking around, probably because those cats look and move more like domestic cats than, say, a big male lion. The big cats on TV certainly didn't sound anything like my cats, so it wasn't about that. I think they just liked the images. I think it goes without saying that they really enjoyed shows about housecats like themselves. Especially loudly mewing kittens. I guess my cats were social types, so they liked to watch TV that had characters they could identify with, and maybe were similar to cats they knew. That would be like a human watching a show about people and their relationships. And maybe a cat who likes to watch shows about prey animals is similar to a human who isn't quite so social, and prefers to hole up in their den watching cooking shows. This was back in the days of Roxy and Smudge, btw. Smudge is now basking in the Big Outdoors in the Sky, and will never have to spend another day of eternity inside four walls. Roxy is still with me, but she doesn't pay much attention to the television. That's because I insist on watching shows about boring humans. Licky usually doesn't pay attention to the TV, either, but once in a while, he is inexplicably riveted to the images. There's no pattern to what might grab his attention, at least not that I've noticed. None of my cats have ever paid any attention to the TV, with one single exception. One evening I was watching a nature show, and Skeeter (RB) was lying on my lap, facing me. At one point in the show, a wolf howled. She immediately jumped up, turned around, and laid facing the TV. She watched intently until the show was over. Years ago I had a screen saver (Anybody remember those?) called Rat Race. It showed rats, wearing numbers, racing around a track. Another RB cat (I've forgotten which one) used to lie on top of the monitor and hang his head down so he could watch that. The wolf howl incident brings back a memory. We were camping in the desert in Arizona and suddenly there were coyotes yipping and howling not that far from us. BD, our Malamute, stuck his head out of the tent and let loose with a much deeper howl, something we had never heard him do before. The coyotes shut up. I think they may have thought "timber wolf, time to go." When we were back in Ohio, BD would occasionally do his wolf howl. LOL! BD was pretty smart. |
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Buffy & Birds - "Cat TV"
Joy wrote:
On 1/28/2016 7:27 PM, Bastette wrote: jmcquown wrote: On 1/25/2016 10:05 AM, Will in New Haven wrote: On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 5:16:30 AM UTC-5, Jack Campin wrote: Buffy simply doesn't seem to care about birds. Persia was always thrilled by "cat TV". In the summer when there were hummingbirds at the feeder, she paid rapt attention as they zipped around and sipped. Buffy was all Ho-hum, there's a bird hovering. Guess it's time for a nap. Buffy is only the second cat I've ever had but I truly thought all of them would at least like to watch birds flitting around. Honestly, she doesn't seem to care. Our lot are all fascinated by them, either in the garden, on a nature DVD or as recorded on a CD. But here's a new one. Marion spent yesterday evening at her computer watching a BBC nature documentary series about deception strategies in animals. Ollie was on here desk beside her and ignored the whole thing - until he heard the call of a baby seal. That got him REALLY interested. Where can you get baby-seal-flavoured cat food? Squeakytoy ignores sound from the TV, including "normal" cat voices. However, if anything comes on that sounds like her voice, which you can figure out from her name, she immediately alerts and replies. We think she is an alien and is trying to answer the mothership. Of course she is! Buffy ignores television completely. Even cat food and treat commercials. Then again, there probably isn't a cat on TV with exactly her same voice. She is bothered by my watching videos on my computer. There's something about the recordings that irritate her, even when the videos don't involve cats. My cats never liked videos made for cats, which would feature squirrels and other small animals running around, or birds chirping and flying around. Actually, to say they didn't like them is an overstatement. They simply didn't take any notice of them. They were much more interested in videos made *of* cats. The instant there was a feline - of any species - on TV, they were glued to the set. They particularly liked images of leopards and mountain lions slinking around, probably because those cats look and move more like domestic cats than, say, a big male lion. The big cats on TV certainly didn't sound anything like my cats, so it wasn't about that. I think they just liked the images. I think it goes without saying that they really enjoyed shows about housecats like themselves. Especially loudly mewing kittens. I guess my cats were social types, so they liked to watch TV that had characters they could identify with, and maybe were similar to cats they knew. That would be like a human watching a show about people and their relationships. And maybe a cat who likes to watch shows about prey animals is similar to a human who isn't quite so social, and prefers to hole up in their den watching cooking shows. This was back in the days of Roxy and Smudge, btw. Smudge is now basking in the Big Outdoors in the Sky, and will never have to spend another day of eternity inside four walls. Roxy is still with me, but she doesn't pay much attention to the television. That's because I insist on watching shows about boring humans. Licky usually doesn't pay attention to the TV, either, but once in a while, he is inexplicably riveted to the images. There's no pattern to what might grab his attention, at least not that I've noticed. None of my cats have ever paid any attention to the TV, with one single exception. One evening I was watching a nature show, and Skeeter (RB) was lying on my lap, facing me. At one point in the show, a wolf howled. She immediately jumped up, turned around, and laid facing the TV. She watched intently until the show was over. Years ago I had a screen saver (Anybody remember those?) called Rat Race. It showed rats, wearing numbers, racing around a track. Another RB cat (I've forgotten which one) used to lie on top of the monitor and hang his head down so he could watch that. That's really cute! -- Joyce What business is it of the state how consenting adults choose to pair off, share expenses and eventually stop having sex with each other? -- Bill Maher |
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